How Google is starting to implement the "right to be forgotten" decision in Europe; more Facebook research experiments on its users; Lawrence Lessig teams up with disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff; and much, much more. Read More

The Supreme Court says "get a warrant"; how the Snowden Effect is leading to promised improvements in European privacy protections and a balkanized Internet; Sean Parker's Brigade attracts criticism for its male-heavy leadership team; and much, much more. Read More

Imagine if you could be unmasked on the Internet at any moment. (Flickr/Fibonacci Blue)

A proposed bill in Armenia would make it illegal for media outlets to include defamatory remarks by anonymous or fake sources, and require sites to remove libelous comments within 12 hours unless they identify the author.

A group of open government advocates and advocacy organizations have come together to issue updated guidance on how federal agencies can make their documents available in an open and accessible way, seeking to go beyond and clarify open data guidance that the Obama administration had published in May. Read More

A new coalition with members ranging from Second Amendment advocates and state chapters of the Council on American-Islamic Relations to Greenpeace, the Free Software Foundation, an organization of California gun-rights advocates and the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles filed suit against the National Security Agency on Tuesday, charging that its domestic surveillance activities, as recently described by The Guardian, are unconstitutional.
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A group of 12 consumer and privacy non-profit groups is asking why the government department in charge of promoting the digital economy won't use modern telecommunications tools to enable broader engagement in a process that's likely to establish key privacy norms for decades to come. Read More